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Temple | |
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Details | |
Artery | Superficial temporal artery |
Vein | Superficial temporal vein |
Identifiers | |
Latin | tempus |
TA98 | A01.1.00.004 |
TA2 | 103 |
FMA | 46450 |
Anatomical terminology |
The temple, also known as the pterion, is a latch where four skull bones intersect: the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid.[1] It is located on the side of the head behind the eye between the forehead and the ear. The temporal muscle covers this area and is used during mastication.
Cladistics classify land vertebrates based on the presence of an upper hole, a lower hole, both, or neither in the cover of dermal bone that formerly covered the temporalis muscle, whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw.